There is a time and a place for baby steps and let me tell you, friends, now is not that place and this blog is not that time. For our very first baking challenge here at Butter and Eggs we waltzed straight into the masters dance class of baking. That's right, we made Danish.
Specifically we made a Seven Sisters Butter Ring Danish from Olsen's Danish Village Bakery in Solvang, CA. Solvang, for those of you who have never been, is a small Danish community near Santa Barbara. It was, according to wikipedia, established in 1911 by a group of Danes who had travelled west to escape the midwestern winters. In the intervening years it has grown into a sort of Danish Disneyland, with strict building codes that enforce traditional Danish village architectural styles, numerous decorative windmills, a miniature version of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue and an awesomely low rent Hans Christian Anderson Museum.
It is what some people might refer to as a tourist trap (if you are cynical and hate joy and laughter) but even grinchiest of travellers would have to agree that Solvang boasts some pretty kick-ass bakeries. I took a trip up there this summer whereupon I procured a glorious buttery almond confection that was probably meant to serve a large family at breakfast which I greedily consumed over the course of three delicious days. Of course, once I had eaten the whole thing, I immediately wanted more, which brings us to Butter and Eggs most recent project - the faithful recreation of one of the most delicious pastries I have ever tasted. Did we succeed? Did we ever!
Specifically we made a Seven Sisters Butter Ring Danish from Olsen's Danish Village Bakery in Solvang, CA. Solvang, for those of you who have never been, is a small Danish community near Santa Barbara. It was, according to wikipedia, established in 1911 by a group of Danes who had travelled west to escape the midwestern winters. In the intervening years it has grown into a sort of Danish Disneyland, with strict building codes that enforce traditional Danish village architectural styles, numerous decorative windmills, a miniature version of Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue and an awesomely low rent Hans Christian Anderson Museum.
It is what some people might refer to as a tourist trap (if you are cynical and hate joy and laughter) but even grinchiest of travellers would have to agree that Solvang boasts some pretty kick-ass bakeries. I took a trip up there this summer whereupon I procured a glorious buttery almond confection that was probably meant to serve a large family at breakfast which I greedily consumed over the course of three delicious days. Of course, once I had eaten the whole thing, I immediately wanted more, which brings us to Butter and Eggs most recent project - the faithful recreation of one of the most delicious pastries I have ever tasted. Did we succeed? Did we ever!